Psalms Chapter 92 verse 7 Holy Bible
When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
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When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
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Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.
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When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - When the wicked spring as the grass; i.e. "spring up" - "flourish" (see ver. 12). The difficulty is that which disturbed Job (Job 21:7-21) and Asaph (Psalm 73:2-15), viz. the prosperity of the wicked. The present writer, however, is not disturbed - he sees in their prosperous condition nothing but a prelude to their overthrow. And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; or, "do blossom." It is that they shall be destroyed forever; literally, it is for their destruction forever (comp. Psalm 73:18-20).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) This verse apparently introduces the statement of the truth which the sensualist does not understand, viz., that the prosperity of the wicked is only momentary, and will render their destruction all the more impressive. The Authorised Version is incorrect in introducing the second conjunction "when." Literally, In the springing of the wicked like grass, flourish all the workers of iniquity to be destroyed for ever, i.e., the prosperity of an evil class or community gives an impulse to evil, and apparently for a time iniquity seems to have the upper hand, but it is only that the inevitable destruction may be more signal. For the emblematic use of vegetable life in the psalter see Note, Psalm 1:3-4.
